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pointing to main branch download
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- With social balloon style
- link points to its filter: open & "help wanted"
- in a new line
* Add pull request count badges
- by filter: open, merged, "help wanted"
- using social balloon style
- linked with its own query filter
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* Add watchers count badge
* Add website status badge
- link points to the github.io version of the repo
* Add `contributions count` badge
* Use nonbreak spaces to separate badges
* Add `contribution covenant 1.3` badge
* Shorten longer `"Help Wanted" Pull Request` badge text
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- It links to related issue search query
* format clean cluttered
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- group by paragraph instead of br
* format: less gap flow
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a PR submit into @badges/shields project is pending to be rendered
* Update repo stats counters + fix typos
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* transfer each badge to its section. now seems less dense
* Fix markdownlint issues
- MD041/first-line-heading/first-line-h1: First line in a file should be a top-level heading
- MD009/no-trailing-spaces: Trailing spaces [Expected: 0 or 4; Actual: 2]
* move website status badge near to its paragraph
* transfer CoC badge near to its paragraph/link
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* Reword issues/PRs badge preface
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## Intro
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